On Wednesday morning Dallas police raided the Catholic Diocese of Dallas headquarters in Oak Lawn, St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Oak Cliff and a Safesite Inc. storage facility in Mountain Creek. The raid came after a detective said church officials had "thwarted" his investigations into allegations of sexual abuse by priests.

The locations were thought to house "implements or instruments used in the commission of a crime, or items constituting evidence of a criminal offense or constituting evidence tending to show a particular person committed a criminal offense," according to a search warrant affidavit filed by Detective David Clark.

Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns said at a news conference Wednesday that the diocese has been cooperating with the investigation and has given police the personnel files "for all the priests named in the warrant."